Originally posted by tomtom232I think you may have missed the point.
I said, "I heard", I didn't say it was true or that I believed it. I was just putting it out there.
I was making a jokette about me saying it wasn't memory (which itself was also a wry comment) and you saying you couldn't remember whether if it was memory or not.
Originally posted by JonathanB of LondonAha 🙂 sometimes I am just a bit dense 😳
I think you may have missed the point.
I was making a jokette about me saying it wasn't memory (which itself was also a wry comment) and you saying you couldn't remember whether if it was memory or not.
Originally posted by tomtom232Yep, I heard that too. However, there is no research supporting this and everything so far suggests that it is false. It doesn't make much evolutionary sense either. Why would we evolve an organ as metabolically expensive as the brain if we use so little of it?
I heard that our brains have more...I don't remember the word, I will post it when I remember...than computers but humans just don't use their full potential. Humans use something like only 10%, or maybe lower, of our brain potential.
Originally posted by exigentskyI do know that the human brain, if it didn't need to function for the senses, breathing, moving, keeping the heart beating, and emotions would be far more capable than computers even in the calculation department...but human brains are more like a general processor where computers normally function for a limited set of things.
Yep, I heard that too. However, there is no research supporting this and everything so far suggests that it is false. It doesn't make much evolutionary sense either. Why would we evolve an organ as metabolically expensive as the brain if we use so little of it?
If 90% of your brain is active at the same moment you will die from an epileptic attack.
All your neurons can't be firing at the same time. That's not how the brain works. You will only have like 10% of your neurons active at a moment, I assume that is a correct number and the basis of this myth. But that doesn't mean one uses only 1/10th of their brain and is only at 1/10th of their potential.
Dormant mental powers can't exist because they can't evolve. And the problem is even more fundamental than the one addressed by exigentsky. Evolution works through mutation and selection. An organ or system can only evolve when each mutation that contributes to it is in itself an advantage. That way these mutations will be selected and add up to something.